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Plain Packaging

Last week the widow of a cigarette smoker who died of lung cancer in 1996 was awarded €23 billion damages by a Florida court. While the tobacco company liable, RJ Reynolds, is likely to appeal, lawyers for Cynthia Robinson, said the goal of the lawsuit was to stop tobacco companies from targeting children and young people with their advertising. Here, in November 2013, the then Minister for Health James Reilly published the outline of a Bill to introduce plain packaging on tobacco products in Ireland with the aim of making Ireland a smoke free society by 2025.

But how important is packaging and marketing and will the removal of branding work?

Keelin was joined by Kathleen O’Meara of the Irish Cancer Society, John Mallon of smokers’ rights group Forest Eireann and by branding expert Sandy Dunlop.

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Politics Wrap

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Chester Beatty

The Chester Beatty Library is an oasis in the heart of Dublin’s city centre. Set inside the walls of Dublin Castle, it contains some of the rarest examples of art from Chester Beatty’s private collection, which he amassed over the course of his life.

The library is currently running a new exhibition called the Chester Beatty’s A to Z and Edel Coffey has been along to see it for us.

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Our Wealth of History County by County

Joining Keelin was Pat Wallace, archaeologist and former director of the National Museum Of Ireland. Pat we’ve been taking a look at the archaeological treasures Ireland has to offer, county by county… and this week we’re off to Clare and Roscommon.

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Glencolmcille

In 1951 a young curate was assigned to a Parish on the edge of the Atlantic, the village of Glencolmcille in Co Donegal. It was a poor Parish with no industry, no electricity and no running water. Over the next thirty years that young priest embarked on a cultural and economic revival, transforming his parish and starting a series of industries which are still providing jobs today...that young curate was Fr James McDyer. Valerie Cox has been to Glencolumbkille to see his legacy.

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Empty Mansions - The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

By Bill Dedman (Atlantic Books)

After stumbling across a mansion in Connecticut which had been unoccupied for over half a century, my next guest began to search for its owner and unravelled the story of Huguette Clark, one of America’s most wealthy heiresses who spent 80 years of her life as a recluse with her final years spent under a psedonym in hospital even though there was nothing wrong with her. So who was Huguette Clark and what will come of her fortune following her death in 2011?

Keelin was joined by Bill Dedman, author of Empty Mansions - The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune